K101 An introduction to health and social care

Answer: Dignity in residential care. Person-centred care emerged from the need to move away from the archaic institutional care which demonstrated, as suggested...

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Question: TMA 05 Title: Is the online availability of care information empowering for care service users and care professionals? Discuss, by weighing up the benefits and shortcomings of online care information in relation to this question.

In answering, draw on what you learned through your team’s investigations and discussions for the K101 project.

Answer: The world wide web has become a part of everyday life in the 21st century in most homes and certainly in schools,...

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Question: TMA 01 Describe the difficulties and rewards of being a carer to a family member.

Answer: The word carer means someone who looks after a friend, relative or neighbour who needs support because of their sickness, age or...

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Question: How does poverty affect people’s health and well-being?

Answer: I am going to look at several different examples of poverty and how it affects people’s health and well-being. To do this...

Using examples from Block 3, discuss how local involvement helps to make care services more responsive to local needs, and explain some challenges in achieving it.

Answer: Where you live can seriously affect your health and well-being. This essay will focus on a government-funded neighbourhood regeneration\renewal programme on an...

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Question: K101 TMA03 - To what extent might Lennox Castle be considered a ‘total institution’.

Answer: Lennox Castle was a hospital which opened in 1936. It was the largest “mental deficiency” hospital in Britain and was typical of...

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Question: K101 TMA 02

Adjusting to a diagnosis of diabetes can be life-changing. Diabetes is globally prevalent and is projected to increase to three hundred million by 2025 (Krentz & Bailey). Diabetes manifests when an individual has high blood sugar, either because the body is not producing enough insulin or due to the cells in the body not responding to the insulin that is produced. Classical symptoms are polyuria, polydipsia as suffered by Anwar (Unit 1 pg 71) in the case study and polyphagia.

Since insulin became available in 1922 (David Matthews) all forms of diabetes have been treatable. However with identification of diabetes come many emotions such as denial, anger and guilt coupled with equal challenges.

Using Anwar's case study focus on three main areas; culture, psychological and personal difficulties faced by him and the available support that will enable him to adjust.

Answer: Coming from an ethnic minority Anwar seems to already be disadvantaged as English is not his first language. Being unfamiliar with the...